General Sentence Correction issues.

[chughbrajesh]

I keep on having hard time with some topics of SC such as modifiers. I was reading an Indian article and I get almost flustered by reading some of the sentences. Especially in Indian newspapers.

But I need some help with modifiers. I have read the strategy guide's chapter on modifiers.

Here is the para of the article from Hindustan Times.

The triumph capped an amazing run for the 63-year-old chief minister of Gujarat, who ran a high-voltage campaign that rewrote the political rulebook and knocked his rivals off balance. The result is the biggest landslide in 30 years, and the first time since 1984 that a single party has a majority in the Lok Sabha.

Isn't it true that the modifier [i]who[i] is not connected to the subject. As the subject I think is "The triumph capped an amazing run for the 63-year-old chief minister of Gujarat" then the sentence uses who. Isn't this wrong?

If it is right the modifier is not connected to the person but it is connected to the state right next to it, [i]Gujarat[i]. When is it ok to not connect the modifier with the object right next to it?

example of a connected modifier. At 4:30, when it is dark, I sleep.
4:30 is connected to when. How about those sentences that have modifying object located far from the modifier. Are they usually common? Especially on the GMAT?

[RonPurewal]

In context, it's pretty clear that the modifier describes "prime minister of Gujarat".

This is a standard use of the modifier.

"___, who..." and "___, which..." can modify a single noun, or a construction of the form noun + preposition + other noun. (See problem #29 in the OG13 sentence correction chapter.) This example fits the latter.